Notes From All Over -- Late Morning Edition -- December 18, 2020

MLPs: from SeekingAlpha, Goldman Sachs, November, 2020:

TSLA: on a down day for the market, TSLA is up 1%;

• volume:
• current: 39 million
• average: 46 million

Winter Storm Gail, electricity rates

• ISO-NE:
• current: $118
• surge: $150
• mix:
• hydro: 8%
• renewables: 7%
• oil: 6%
• coal: 3%
• natural gas maxed out
• ISO-NY:
• Long Island: $101
• NYC: $87
• west-state (along Pennsylvania state line: $33

Winter Storm Gail: link here, from The WSJ:

A massive storm system dropped record-breaking snow across parts of the Northeast, producing dangerous traffic conditions that snarled highways and resulted in multiple fatalities.

Residents from Virginia to Maine dug out of significant snowfall from the two-day storm. It dumped more than 2 feet across central Pennsylvania and New York.

In Binghamton, N.Y., 42 inches of snow fell, breaking the area’s record for the highest one-day and two-day storm totals in December.

“It’s shattering a lot of records over here,” said Lily Chapman, a meteorologist with the weather service in Binghamton.

In New York City, 10.5 inches of snow fell on Central Park by Thursday afternoon, surpassing last winter’s cumulative snowfall there.

Japan: record snowfall hits Japanese islands. 

Chinese flu watch:

• wow, the brown map is at light as ever except for San Bernardino County, CA
• even "four corners" looking better:
• except for a couple of outliers, ND is practically back to "normal"
• top-5 graphic:
• Tennessee remains at #1 but new cases/100,000 coming down
• Rhode Island remains at #2, followed by California (#3), Arizona (#4), and Indiana (#5)
• California's rate of climb? By Monday, if not over the weekend, California should clearly be in first place;